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[NorthCoast]

This may be a silly question... but I am still kinda new at this.

I saw in a post a while back the symbol for degrees noted in a post. I have searched and can not seem to find the reference. Can someone plaese post the sequence of keys (key combination or UBBCode) that will result in the raised degree symbol? I really don't want to use an asterisk " * " in my post if the symbol could be used.

Thanks,
Mark

[sixela]

On a US keyboard, that would be ALT-SHIFT-; (yielding °).

[EdZ]

Hold Alt type 248

[jrcrilly]

Hold Alt type 248

That works for me, though the alt-shift-minus doesn't.

[NorthCoast]

On a US keyboard, that would be ALT-SHIFT-; (yielding °).

It is still 40° outside an raining!"

Thank you six!

-Mark

[NorthCoast]

Hold Alt type 248

That doesn't seem to work for me...

-Mark

[NewAstronomer]

Hmmm
neither worked for me, interesting I'll have to investigate this

[imjeffp]

Option-shift-8 on the Mac.
365°, burning down the house.

[Havo]

Well 248 works for me only if you type the 248 on the number pad...

°

[lighttrap]

Interesting! Alt 248 also works only for me on the number pad, as well. Whomever programmed this one must not have had a ° in computer science. Oh, wait, wrong kind of degree. Maybe that was the problem. They were cold.

[Patrick]

Mark,

Silly question??? I've wanted to know how to do that for ages!! 45° woo hoo!!! 1.45° TFOV!!! WOW!

Yeah...this is great° ° ° °

(only works on the number pad for me too.)°

Patrick°

[kc6zut]

T°h≈a÷n⌡k⌠s≤

[kc6zut]

Ok, that's what I get for goofing around. But at least the ° works. Thanks

[Patrick]

T°h≈a÷n⌡k⌠s≤

Okay, now I'm really jealous! How did you get the "÷" symbol? Hey, what the heck??? The quote above isn't correct. That's not what I pasted in there. What's goin on here?? I pasted in your line of text and look what the computer did to it...no numbers at all.

Was your message coded by the way? Oh, I see...cool!

Patrick

[Bill Grass]

Hold Alt & punch 0176 on the numerical keypad...works fine for me! °

[Mike Casey]

Hold Alt type 248

Holding the Alt key while typing 248 on the keypad works just fine for me too.

Here is a website with tables for ASCII Codes and Extended ASCII Codes.

http://www.lookuptables.com/

[celestial_search]

It was 73° today.
Finally got it to work, but I had to hold down SHIFT ALT 248 (on keypad).

[Patrick]

Here is a website with tables for ASCII Codes and Extended ASCII Codes.

Wow, that's a lot of numbers to remember! ° + ÷

Patrick

[Rusty]

Lord, I thought I was done with those things after the DOS days!

Thanks for the website - I'd never find my ASCII cheat sheet....

[miniventures]

I've often wondered how that was done---Mike, that table is too cool!

[matt]

Why don't you just buy a French keyboard?

[sixela]

Hold Alt type 248

That works for me, though the alt-shift-minus doesn't.

Not alt-shift-minus -- alt-shift-semicolon (or alt-colon, if you prefer, given the colon is shift-semicolon).

[MMICKELS]

Can't get any of these to work for me. I'll try at work.

[Treeclipper]

°, well atl +248 on num pad works for me, the other way doesn't though.

[Special Ed]

°, well atl +248 on num pad works for me, the other way doesn't though.

Same here. Thanks! (°^°)